Your Silence Speaks.
You Step 1 - Step Back in your Five Steps to Good Decision Making.
If you have an audience - ie anyone affected by your decision - they will wait for you.
As they do, they will fill the space you created with more words in their thinking than you ever could if you spoke instead of stepped back.
By you stepping back - you also gift them the time and permission to benefit from a reprieve from the reflexive response to the information you’re called upon to make a decision about.
Your silence speaks more eloquently and productively in the voice in the mind of the other.
Stepping back is the beginning of you accompanying them.